Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

software industry, more digital by its nature, it is nowadays the standard to use version control systems such as git, with …, software, music, news, and videos (Waldfogel, 2017; Wu and Zhu, 2022). Three of the top 10 of the global 2000 list by Forbes in …

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co … say, a first best realization of contracts is not feasible. Hence, open and closed source software are two second best …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

Software engineering is a field with strong geographic concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech … alternative proxy for productivity, complementing the literature by covering a broad range of software engineering. With user …

open source software. We argue that the particular way in which open source projects are managed and especially how … superior capabilities. With this incentive they will forgo the immediate rewards they could earn in software companies … producing proprietary software by restricting the access to the source code of their product. Whenever institutional …

The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers …

Arbeitender, die durch eine rechtlich spezifische Lizenz ein 'öffentliches Gut' erstellen, neben kommerzieller Software eine hohe … Bedeutung erlangt. In dieser Arbeit wird die Zusammenarbeit der Open Source-Mitarbeiter bei der Softwareentwicklung anhand einer … Einfluss der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IuK) auf die hoch virtuelle Zusammenarbeit der Softwareentwicklung …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …